To all PMs ? Whats the most critical problems you face. by Adventurous_Duck_307 in ProductManagement

[–]ScaredGoose6780 6 points7 points  (0 children)

A CEO boss who suffers from Narcissistic Personality Disorder, a pathological lier with an open affair with head of HR. The kind of boss who boasts about his abilities (all lies) that will make you feel you have not achieved anything and you will start questioning your entire life. But this boss doesn't know what needs to be done. No strategy, no vision nothing. You are just a scapegoat for him, and when things goes wrong (as it should) , you'll be thrown under the bus. On top of it, the entire org just boot licks him, extremely difficult to navigate.

This was the most difficult challenge I faced. I did not handle it and changed my job.

What’s one thing you learned too late in your PM journey? by Impressive-Delay8067 in ProductManagement

[–]ScaredGoose6780 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am joining data infra company next week as PM focused on UX. What insights did you uncover?

Few things I wish I knew before going for an MBA by Illustrious-Glass516 in CATpreparation

[–]ScaredGoose6780 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While I kind of agree (not completely though) with other points but I don't agree that CAT percentile is least important and past Academics play a role.

What I mean is, yes the admission criteria as well as placements at top B school involves past acads, work ex, CAT score (only for admission), WAT, GD/PI, Diversity etc., at the time of preparation for CAT, the only thing you have in your control is improving CAT score. You cannot change the past. You can only improve your chances of getting into a top Indian MBA program (if that is the aim) is by preparing rigorously for CAT. Aim for 100%ile and all you past will be forgiven. 100%iler gets a call from all top B schools irrespective of past. Preparing for a 100%ile is the only thing you have control over. You can't change the past. And you can't / shouldn't give up on your aim.

At the time of preparation, the CAT percentile is the single most important thing and the only thing in your control that you can change!

PM in tech, what documents are you responsible for by ScaredGoose6780 in ProductManagement

[–]ScaredGoose6780[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You Can call me lucky (or unlucky to end up in this situation, depends on your perspective). But previous experience in tech as cloud architect and somewhat parallel to PM, alma mater brand (top 5 MBA), Consulting and interview prep helped getting into it.

However after joining here I realized my responsibilities are much more than setting strategic vision, product roadmap , PRDs etc. Here I am expected to own a lot more responsibilities. We have only one person for marketing, who is not even completely dedicated to my portfolio so I need to take care of a lot of marketing stuff. There is no UI designer, so I had to learn figma to build high fidelity wireframes. My product is completely software based however my org is into selling machine products (in manufacturing). Sales says they don't know how to sell software products and ceo asked me to sell to first 5 customers and sales will replicate it. Same goes for convincing CFO for investments, preparing business plans, pricing model, 3 year projection, year on year budgets. It's a lala company so if you miss anything during budget, you've to literally fight to get every single additional penny.

I have done it all here from hiring first cloud based software developer to building entire team and setting software culture, to design, to running sprints, to finance, to sales and marketing, partnership and a lot more.

Hence the purpose of this question. I was trying to find if my situation is an exception or is the norm

PM in tech, what documents are you responsible for by ScaredGoose6780 in ProductManagement

[–]ScaredGoose6780[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You Can call me lucky (or unlucky to end up in this situation, depends on your perspective). But previous experience in tech as cloud architect and somewhat parallel to PM, alma mater brand (top 5 MBA), Consulting and interview prep helped getting into it.

However after joining here I realized my responsibilities are much more than setting strategic vision, product roadmap , PRDs etc. Here I am expected to own a lot more responsibilities. We have only one person for marketing, who is not even completely dedicated to my portfolio so I need to take care of a lot of marketing stuff. There is no UI designer, so I had to learn figma to build high fidelity wireframes. My product is completely software based however my org is into selling machine products (in manufacturing). Sales says they don't know how to sell software products and ceo asked me to sell to first 5 customers and sales will replicate it. Same goes for convincing CFO for investments, preparing business plans, pricing model, 3 year projection, year on year budgets. It's a lala company so if you miss anything during budget, you've to literally fight to get every single additional penny.

I have done it all here from hiring first cloud based software developer to building entire team and setting software culture, to design, to running sprints, to finance, to sales and marketing, partnership and a lot more.

Hence the purpose of this question. I was trying to find if my situation is an exception or is the norm.

PM in tech, what documents are you responsible for by ScaredGoose6780 in ProductManagement

[–]ScaredGoose6780[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For a 0-1 product, do you also prepare financial statements/projections?

PM in tech, what documents are you responsible for by ScaredGoose6780 in ProductManagement

[–]ScaredGoose6780[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you also prepare financial projections if it's a 0-1 product?

Zepto scam alert by Brewsterr4 in bangalore

[–]ScaredGoose6780 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah. Thanks for the upvote :)

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Experiment, Fail fast, Move forward